skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
discussed 20 years ago https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

> I think Colour is what the designers of Monolith are trying to challenge, although I'm afraid I think their understanding of the issues is superficial on both the legal and computer-science sides. The idea of Monolith is that it will mathematically combine two files with the exclusive-or operation. You take a file to which someone claims copyright, mix it up with a public file, and then the result, which is mixed-up garbage supposedly containing no information, is supposedly free of copyright claims even though someone else can later undo the mixing operation and produce a copy of the copyright-encumbered file you started with. Oh, happy day! The lawyers will just have to all go away now, because we've demonstrated the absurdity of intellectual property!

> The fallacy of Monolith is that it's playing fast and loose with Colour, attempting to use legal rules one moment and math rules another moment as convenient. When you have a copyrighted file at the start, that file clearly has the "covered by copyright" Colour, and you're not cleared for it, Citizen. When it's scrambled by Monolith, the claim is that the resulting file has no Colour - how could it have the copyright Colour? It's just random bits! Then when it's descrambled, it still can't have the copyright Colour because it came from public inputs. The problem is that there are two conflicting sets of rules there. Under the lawyer's rules, Colour is not a mathematical function of the bits that you can determine by examining the bits. It matters where the bits came from.
Funny how it probably differs per ~5 years who is the most famous BDFL. I'd have gone for Linus Torvalds as the most famous, or maybe Guido van Rossum.
I was trying to make this myself earlier but every single AI model I found used something like 50% of my CPU or GPU.

Any idea how this is possible? Voicemod does something similar and I couldn't figure it out. Is it actually AI or is this just shifting pitch/reverb/etc
> 3-5 days of migraine-level headaches and nausea...

A single sip of coffee, or a cup of good black tea generally alleviates these symptoms. I had to drink a sip of coffee on day 4 while quitting coffee, and all my headache was gone.
No one can avoid addictive substances, but at least countries like Singapore try to criminalize or heavily restrict their access via sin taxes AND prosecution of dealers.

The kind of model Canada and California follows could be helpful as well, if only prosecution and the stick was also used in conjunction with cracking down on black markets for drugs the same way provinces and CA do on moonshine.
A big problem is those mines usually leave behind pretty toxic remains so the water you're pumping around is extremely hostile to the people and equipment you're thinking of putting it through/near. Then there's the chance of a dam collapse releasing that toxic water outside the mine.
That’s not 54.4% as dual income households that’s 54.4% as more than 1 income.

In the 1940’s multi generational households with multiple income earners were common. In 1940 only 7.8% of all households had a single person vs 26.7% by 2010. Working adult children would frequently stay at home until marriage and sometimes past that point.

This is one of those things you need actual data based on similar definitions to compare.
> Ukraine seems pretty intent on continuing to fight

Yeah, i saw the videos of men being kidnapped from the streets, and the articles about european countries trying to forcibly sending men (who managed to escape) back to ukraine, to die for zelensky. Once you're out of volounteers ready to fight, you're not "intent on" anything anymore, but are forcing young (and a bit less young) men to die for politics. And ukraine hasn't had any volounteers for quite a lot of time now.

> I can't imagine any sane person is going to blame the Ukrainian media for Russia invading Ukraine, killing Ukrainian soldiers and committing genocide in Ukraine. I imagine they would, you know, blame Russia itself. Lol.

Ukranian media can be a cause for uninformed men to die in a way, that they would never fight in, if they knew the truth.
For me, cigarettes eliminate hunger.
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When the pipe is below the water level, air can't travel up the pipe.
French strike forces Ryanair to cancel more than 300 flights across Europe
> Reality disagrees with your worldview. There is only one thing that's "worth a promotion" and that's convincing the person able to greenlight it that you deserve it.

It seems pretty clear to me that the person you’re replying to was talking in the sense of how things should be, not describing the way things are. Also, “worth promotion” is not their wording. You’re nitpicking the wrong thing.
Why quit coffee if it has health benefits?
There's a great, possibly not well explored, area of "how the fuck do we move that planter stealthily".

I suggest hi-vis vests, helmets, and appearing like you're in the right place just doing your job.
How do you pull in the commercial offers?
Sorry to hear. I hope you'll get past that fear one day and discover how rich your life can be without work filling most of your days and taking up most of it (potentially for someone else's profit.)
How did you find the images? How did you solve the copyright issue?
I feel like Loopback would be enough for anyone. You can do everything I’ve ever needed to do, and I had some hare-brained ideas during the pandemic.
> How come Palintir didnt flag Epstein?

I already know the answer to this one: cause it sure as hell wasn’t going to flag Clinton, Dershowitz, or Andrew of the House of Windsor.
I think we are within grasping range of genetic engineering humans to eliminate a lot of the more “interesting” bits of biology, but we are waiting for the commercial requirements to be there before really making things happen.
(I can't find any English lit on it, but my Grundfos Ejektorpump (had to go out and look at it to see what it's called; perhaps the correct translation is ejector pump rather than injector pump?) is in a 85m deep borehole and works great. It's 40 years old, heavily used and never serviced and quite a puzzle how it's still going. I have no idea if they can pump from deeper than that)
coffee equivalent to McDonalds. consistently the same, often better than you'd think, but nothing amazing.
> then went ahead and legalized marijuana so now kids who would never have smoked cigarettes

...Except marijuana absolutely isn't legalized, so this is completely incorrect. And in the minority of states that currently ignore the illegality of marijuana, they impose the same age restrictions as cigarettes.
"It's the way you tell 'em"
Anti-cheat is physically an uphill battle, because, in the end, it's all just numbers. Anti-cheat is basically trying to say "you can send these numbers but you can't send those numbers". But I can send "those" numbers. I can send any numbers I want. You can make it difficult to send the right numbers, but I've got your numbers that describe how to send the numbers right in front of me, which is a rather large help.

That's not to say it's hopeless. Sibling comments point out various options that can be run purely server-side. But there's no perfect solution. Even cloud gaming can't prevent cheating because I can take the resulting video stream and run computer vision algorithms on it and still send wrong-numbers back up as my input stream. This may not let me see through walls but is still plenty to implement an aimbot, for instance. Push it into a DRM'd device and I can grab the HDMI stream and hack apart my controller to directly apply voltages to the controller. DRM the HDMI stream and I can point a camera at my TV. Detect my aimbot through machine learning and I can put together a machine learning network with a few hundred of my buddies to precisely characterize the thresholds the server is using and stay below them while still having a cheat system that plays better than I do. And so forth.

(And do not underestimate the extent that people will go to to cheat. I don't really consider "get together with a hundred of my buddies and use machine learning to characterize your machine learning ban algorithm" to be something that could not happen. The amount of effort people will put into cheating is not bounded by your credulity. Weirder things have already happened.)

The deck is fundamentally stacked against preventing cheating. You can certainly take a bite out of it but precisely hitting the exact right contour to exactly nail the cheaters and never hit anyone by mistake is effectively impossible.
Just another one for collection: conda. Especially the parts about conda-build, meta.yaml etc. There are only examples w/o any way to tell what's available. And the source code is frustratingly twisted, undocumented and all over the place. Something that makes creating conda packages an extremely frustrating experience, to the point that it's significantly easier to create archives and write the metadata by hand than to rely on conda tooling.
I hate that my smoking cessation aid is being ruined because gas station attendants can't be bothered to check IDs.
I have to use both Jira and Workday.

Unpopular opinion, perhaps: I find them ugly and slow, but not soul-crushing.

Granted, I only use WD to book PTO. If my whole work was around it, I would probably hate it too. My work _is_ around Jira, but my opinion is just a strong "meh". Companies should definitely find better alternatives, but the hyperbole is a meme at this point, e.g. "I'd rather be unemployed than use Jira"
A Culture of Envy
Sorry! I forgot to include a disclaimer that most of the stores are US based right now. I am excited to expand to different countries but there are a few difficult questions to figure out in terms of user experience. I’m hoping to nail the core functionality and then focus on expanding to other countries. Thanks for the comment!
FWIW most Western militaries have specific ratios that are deemed acceptable for neutralizing a target (i.e. killing a baddie). These ratios are usually ranked based on the target's importance with a regular soldier being very low and a military leader being ranked very high. Often collateral damage from strikes against high value targets is more acceptable because the high value target is accompanied by lower value targets adding to the ratio.

I'm not aware of any such ratio used by the IDF. I've recently heard an Israeli government spokesperson say that the IDF has killed 13,000 Hamas including "civilian combatants". My guess would be that the IDF uses a very loose definition of whom they define as a combatant (note that the US for example has never used the term "civilian combatant" as that mixes the two groups: if they're a combatant they're not civilian and vice versa). Given that Israel also does not seem to acknowledge the 30,000+ lower bound on total deaths from IDF attacks in Gaza, it's entirely possible that Israel's ratio could be as low as 2 civilians per combatant in aggregate. But it's worth noting that this would still be much higher than anything used by any "Western" military even the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Given the rhetoric of Israeli government spokespersons, officials, politicians and other talking heads, I think it's more likely that the IDF effectively has no limits on how many Palestinian civilian casualties are acceptable per target. Former IDF soldiers have mentioned eliminationist rhetoric like "the terrorists who did Oct 7 are the kids we spared" or "anyone who hasn't left after the evacuation order should be assumed to be Hamas". This doesn't inspire confidence.
I’m really not sure what the word “right” means in this case. Normally I would think it means you can do something without punishment, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here.
“The devil is in the details”, as they say.
Show HN: Arbitrarily nestable tabs and splits for the qtile window manager
Hey HN. I released qtile-bonsai [0] - a flexible custom layout for the qtile [1] window manager that lets you arrange windows as tabs, splits and even subtabs under splits.

For a quick feeler on what's possible, there is a short demo video in the README and there's a 'visual guide' [2] as a one pager cheatsheet.

The use case is when you want to generally do more within a single workspace (or a 'Group', in qtile parlance).
A couple examples:

- keep things like logs/servers/ssh/etc in the background, but pull them into view without losing sight of your main content

- presentations: keep progressive demonstrations as background subtabs

Give it a shot if you feel like it's time to review your desktop workflow!

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[0]: https://github.com/aravinda0/qtile-bonsai

[1]: https://github.com/qtile/qtile

[2]: https://aravinda0.github.io/qtile-bonsai/static/visual_guide...
This is such an edge case on quitting a caffeine addiction. 2 liters is an INSANE amount of coffee to be drinking daily.

Kudos to you but let's not pretend this is the average experience of people breaking even much milder levels of caffeine consumption.
I am a bit disappointed; I was expecting plants that cost a minimum of 6K...
But: I do like the site!
Number Detective: Explaining an unexpected numerical pattern
Upcoming Sokol header API changes (May 2024)
I always assumed smoking made all food taste like shit.
Why would you want to ditch Loopback?
I expect the pay awards are based on the various OSS foundation thingies lobbying.

But protecting dev environments makes sense. Think how many supply chains an attacker can compromise if they can get at random dumb developer machines...
100% this. VAC remains one of the more effective anti-cheats out there while retaining relatively few privileges on the client machines.

A gaming youtuber, 3kliksphilip, made a 10-minute rundown of the state of VAC and where it may be going from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHMAwAeRMA. I'm unaffiliated with the channel.

The video front-loads some information that many readers here will already be familiar with (along the lines of "what's a kernel and who decided to put so many rings on it") but overall it's a nice light watch.
"Verifying it yourself" is often if not usually also a leap of faith, because how shall a single mind error check itself in a confirmably reliable manner, especially if it's received no specialized training in the domain?
Maybe unrelated, but I’ve noticed that setting a timer on iOS drains my battery more than I would expect, and the phone gets warm after a while. It’s just bad enough that if the timer is longer than 15 minutes, I often use an alarm instead of a timer. Not something I’ve experienced on Android.
Yeah wearables limitation is they rarely track both open and closed chain exercises. closed chain = dips/pullup where you move body through space, usually hands locked so watches/bands don't work, open chain = body fixed, move limbs like BP where this method won't work well. If it's something being worn, it needs to be adjusted to differnt positions to track different exercises, which makes implementation finicky.
To Mend a Farm
I'm just going on what the news says, and you know how the news likes to misrepresent stuff for clicks, but here's a few articles on the topic.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/student-protesters-denounce-antise...

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/israel-hamas-war-protest...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/coll...
Several reasons.

The first is fundamental: density is not really helpful for this sort of application. The work done in expanding material (including gas) at a given pressure is P dV, and the work done in moving material across a pressure difference is V dP. Notably, mass doesn’t appear at all here, so adding more mass or density doesn’t add energy storage capacity in and of itself.

You can compute this more explicitly, and, for an ideal gas, the useful energy extractable from a tank of gas at pressure P (under ideal, isothermal conditions) is proportional to the change in log P. So it’s actually rather more important to achieve low pressure than high pressure.

On top of this, there’s a practical consideration: the atmosphere is an effectively infinite source of gas at 1 atm. If you are working between high and higher pressure, you need two reservoirs.

All you’re gaining is less temperature change per unit pressure change, but it’s probably the same amount of heat for any practical purpose, so you still need an intercooler of some sort for good efficiency.
Why not? You can create multi-output audio devices in macos, say blackhole and your speakers and use that multi-output device as the input in the recorder.
Not south, central.
> “ suboptimal" from the global perspective, because to me a simple solution should be a local optimum for a specific problem.

Except if that requires a company to create and support dozens of “optimal” versions of the same functionality for similar, but different performance impacting, circumstances.

That is not globally simple for the producer, or for customers trying to figure out what version they need. Or having to manage multiple versions for different uses.

> For instance, one could argue that the Unix motto "do one thing well" generate lots of specialized programs

The clear design philosophy of Unix file and stream tools, and there interoperability, does enable much simpler command construction.

But as a maker of tools, you can only leverage interoperability standards if they exist. For many software objects, and ways of combining them, standardized conventions are less well defined, less reliable, or non-existent.

Thus ubiquitous glue code - navigating complex mismatches in information and conventions between components.

Also note, that Unix scripting didn’t eliminate C apps! The cost of Unix tool simplicity, is a massive loss of performance for many use cases. So similar functionality gets recreated over and over again, in virtually every C (or other language) app, to optimize for slightly different contexts.

With work and standards, simplicity “islands” are achieved. But they form an archipelago - not a continent. Need to go in an unsupported direction and you have to swim a mile, instead of walk one.
I disagree. Thats not a leap at all. When you ban background checks people become racist, doesnt matter what the context is.
The point of shoving so much data at those models is to help them pick up on the "very very large number of factors".

There was a story I saw on HN a few times in the past, but which I can't find anymore, of someone training a simple, dumb neural net to predict a product (or a sum?) of two numbers, and discovering to their surprise that, under optimization pressure, the network eventually picked up Fourier Transform.

It doesn't seem out of realm of possibility for a large model to pick up on light propagation physics and basic 3D structure of our reality just from watching enough images. After all, the information is implicitly encoded there, and you can handwave a Bayesian argument that it should be extractable.
This is what I've been using since upgrading to M1 because SoundFlower I used on my previous Mac is a kernel extension and installing those on Apple Silicon is a mess.
I have not - why is it a massive failure?
It isn't difficult to be granted this permission. All an app needs to do is supply a reason defined in https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/pr... as to why it's being used in the app's bundled PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file, which could be disingenuous.
Women are consistently less satisfied with their jobs than men
NeXT is the closer copy of Smalltalk. Mac OS is the diluted version.
Show HN: mod-support for extendable business software
As someone that has struggled trying to find plants to suit a particular garden in the past, I love your site!

(And I just spotted the pet safe tab - even better!)

Edit: could you include temperature suitability? Including plants that can or can't cope with snow, for example?
I did my research before letting coffee loose on my body.

The coffee acts by blocking tiredness/sleep receptors on the brain, so brain builds more of them to work normally. This is how coffee dependence and tolerance builds.

When you stop coffee, brain detects that the number of receptors is too high and starts to break them down. This is why you get the headaches.

That "one week" period is not an edge case, it's the science of it. If it was proved to be harder on that research, I'd never let my body to reach 2L/day levels.
Being a candle is different than the sensation that one is a candle. Indeed, yes, i think it's reasonable to posit, that, if such a sensation exists, then all things would feel it in some way, depending on how much of a candle you are.
The fact this one got caught looks borderline miraculous though
The problem is that you need this energy when you want to provide electricity from the storage, which isn't the moment where energy in general is cheap.

The positive aspect of such a system is that the thermal energy you need is not subject to Carnot's law, so the temperature of the heat source doesn't matter unlike most use of thermal energy (and that's why you can use waste thermal energy in the first place) but you still need a way to get that energy.
Well, Israel has also funded Hamas for years!
Because of price gouging. $100 for basic audio routing is absurd, and they'll hit you up again eventually for upgrades.
> in a manner that caps costs to IA at a survivable level

How do you know that? The last I saw, the penalty was still undisclosed.
Yeah that's why war sucks bro. People end up getting conscripted when the war is for the very existence of the country itself. It sucks.

So Russia should withdraw.

Anyway seethe more. And keep acting all shocked and outraged that countries produce propaganda during war time when they are attacked. Lol.
And there is certainly anti-Semitism mixed in with the protests, but I think Germany is still overdoing it. Silencing plenty of valid speech has a cost, too.
I know it's a bit unrelated to this exact person, but this is how you get terrorists.

Imagine some foreign worker in europe/us, losing all his family this way until s/he literally has nothing left to lose, while the politicians in your new country brag about helping the killers of your family with more weapons and money.

Then when someone like that decides to bring the "war" to europe/us, and shoots/bombs/... some people, we all act as if "how is this possible?", "who could have radicalized him like that?" etc. Well, we did.
This is just a fork of nixpkgs and nix no?
Australia's first solar garden is taking the renewables boom to the community
"We didn't target them because they were journalists. We thought we were shooting at regular unarmed civilians."
In this case its particularly aggravating because, at least where I live, gas stations still sell flavored disposable vapes. The difference is that now they're cheap knockoff brands, and they only come in high potency unlike juul where you could get 3% pods. The mango pod ban didn't make anything safer for consumers by any measure and I want them back god dammit
I remember installing the TCP/IP stack from a treasured special floppy onto win 3.11 machines (giving them RIPE addresses and using NT4 as a router to expose the entire network onto the public internet - not a great idea in retrospect, but it was 1994 and everyone seemed so polite).
What is the common thread of ideology between North Korea, China, and Russia? The first two are nominally communist, but their interpretations of communism seem incompatible with each other and with most of what communism was from 1918 though the end of the 1980s. Russia has its nostalgists, but they seem to miss the power of the USSR more than its ideology.
Middle-Class Lifestyle Out of Reach for Those Making Six Figures
How is the latency for you? I know blackhole is advertised as 0ms itself, but I always found that crossing virtual devices incurred the input/output latency of the daw itself.